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Part One: The Dumbest Coup In World History

Behind the Bastards

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Having a Distortion, I'm Not a Dictatorship Expert, but I Feel Like People Are More Wrong With It

The leader of equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Macias, was a dictator for 11 years. He banned Western medicine leading to a resurgence of leprosy among other illnesses. During one Christmas mass execution at a sports stadium in the capital Malabo, Palace Guard shot 150 people to death while the song Those Were the Days My Friend played on an endless loop. The Wonga coup by Adam Roberts goes on to note quote night clubs and clue and schools closed missionaries were chased from the country.

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